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The problem is, I think, that H&S staff have gone beyond what was intended when the Act was placed on the Statute Books. It is, perhaps, a badly written piece of legislation as are a few others I could mention.

It's a result of the blame culture which now invades this country, "if there's blame, there's a claim"

Another regrettable follow on from these tragedies is that the relatives & dependants of the workers who perished will probably not see a rupee (or whatever the currency is) of compensation, because liability for the 'accident' will remain unresolved.

Hopefully it with force the country into accepting safety standards what we accept as normal standards. And yes the price of trainers will go up to pay for it.

Only 6 years before our own 1974 H&S legislation came into force I remember this fire in Glasgow while I was living in Dunfermline as 12 year old and recall the general public shock at the time that there were factories in Britain with fire exits barred for security reasons.

In some instances yes, but too much is far more preferable to too little.

For instance we have mad signs all over the place at work, including the faintly ludicrous "Food Only" sign on the microwaves, but last week at one of our sites someone tried to dry some paperwork in a microwave, it set on fire and caused several premises in the same building to be evacuated...

I am always very careful when using my microwave oven. It heats up cups of cold tea/coffee quite efficiently, it is also brilliant at making my morning porridge, But I got a shock one morning when I placed my cup of cold coffee in it and was rewarded with a quite illuminating show of sparkles and lots of crackling noises. Luckily I was quick enough to turn it off, and then realised that the top of the cup had been annointed with a gold paint which must have had a metallic content.

I suppose drying out damp paper is not as bad as drying the pet cat or dog, which I believe has happened in the past. "Some mothers do have 'em".

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